Books with title McBroom's Ear

"Anything would grow in it - quick. Seeds would burst in the ground and crops would shoot right up before your eyes. Why, just yesterday our oldest boy dropped a five-cent piece and before he could find it that nickel had grown to a quarter." Yep, this is a farm where the tales grow as tall as the corn. Why, to hear McBroom tell it, EVERYTHING is bigger, better and even HOTTER than anywhere else. "The sun-ball began to outdo itself. Hot? Why the next morning it was so infernal hot that a block of ice felt warm to the touch. Mama had to boil water to cool it off. Sunflowers along the road picked up their roots and hurried under the trees for shade." Join the silliness as McBroom and his eleven children do battle with a plague of grasshoppers and attempt to grow some prize-winning veggies for the County Fair. Bushels of fun for everyone (sorry!) and another terrific (tall) tale by a wonderful storyteller. ( Amazon customer)

Josh McBroom, his wife Melissa, and their rather large brood of children seem to be facing catastrophe when a freak twister comes along and uproots all of the marvelous topsoil from their magical one-acre farm, but the wily and resourceful McBroom follows the twister (turned red because of all the ripe tomato plants it has ripped up, and leaving a ready tomato-flecked trail to follow) and tracks down his soil miles away. It looks like it will be impossible to cart it all back, as the struggling farmer doesn't have the money to hire all the trucks necessary, but on the way to and from the pile of topsoil the McBrooms come across a whole strange hassle of critters that have been deposited by the tornado, rare beasts that they reckon no one hither or yon has seen, and a plan is hatched to start up a zoo in the hole left by the farm, charge admission and get the topsoil back.